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Let’s start with all the cards on the table -- this post may be as hard for you to believe as it was for us to write. As you might expect from people obsessed enough with ingredients to have a weekly column on a single vegetable, when it comes to pre-prepared meals the bar to enjoyment is set rather high. So the invitation to Fresh Direct’s launch of “Fresh Dining by Terrence Brennan” – a line of fresh food, vacuum packed for microwave dining at home -- was accepted with hearty skepticism.

For most people growing up there was little by the way of choice when it came to potatoes. Sure….out at a restaurant you might get your choice of fried, baked or mashed, but for cooking at home most folks knew only of the Idaho russet. Sometimes there was a choice of red potatoes also, but their low starch count limited their appearances to potato salads. Those lucky enough to live near Maine or California may have also seen small white potatoes labeled “new” in the supermarkets.